BlueSox30

I'm really pleased with the level of interest shown in my little endeavour! To reiterate - even if you don't have a copy of Scenery Disk 12 lying around - if you have any memory of running this with MSFS 2, that would be a great help to me as I'm starting to question if it was ever intended to run with MSFS 2. This is all very interesting! I will PM you in relation to your community server - it would be great to engage with other like-minded individuals. You're very correct in respect of the non-standard sector copy protection SubLOGIC used, but they can be made to work with DosBox. I have them all working with MSFS 2 in DosBox (except SD12), including the very tricky Disk 9 (the one floating around the internet 'works' but has serious problems). There are other faithful emulators like PCE and 86Box that will run images of the disks including the non-standard sector copy protection so these are a bit easier but like on my actual hardware (physical 5.25" disk, floppy drive, MS-DOS 6.22 etc), an image of my physical Scenery Disk 12 won't work on these. I assume there are two possibilities - I have a bad SD12 disk or it was never made to work with MSFS 2. The goal is to get Scenery Disk 12 running with MSFS 2 in DosBox to complete my collection - the first step is to find a physical copy of both MSFS 2 and SD 12 that will work with each other. I've become very interested in the early years of microcomputing and to learn more about the various platforms that people remember so fondly - the IBM PC and Apple 2 and Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit range and Amiga etc - all these computers that existed years before I ever got my first 486 PC - and to find out a little more about how the hardware shaped the Flight Simulators of the time. It's been lots of fun - the experience of these computers (through emulators) is so alien, novel and quaint. Scenery Disk 12 was one of the last, if not the last scenery disk to be released, around 1988, after MSFS 3 had been released. It includes renderings of New York City, Boston, Halifax, Montreal, Philadelphia, and Hartford. It wasn't released for many of the platforms that had received scenery disks in the past, but I do know it was released for DOS and the Amiga. This makes the DOS platform (IBM and compatibles) one of the few (if not the only) platforms to be able to run every scenery disk released. Clarifying if you have memories of flying Scenery Disk 12 back in the day? Or other scenery disks? If SD 12, do you recall flying this in MSFS 2 specifically? Long time ago, I know! No worries about email replies, I was simply worried something unfortunate might've happened to you. Now that I know you have a repository of vintage flight simulation software lookout for another email!

As someone once said...we choose to do these things, not because they are easy, but because we think they will be easy...

Kernel32, appreciate your response. The source of the file you have referenced is from the physical disk of my acquaintance. :) The only other lead I have managed to unearth was from MobyGames, and I subsequently got in touch with that contributor and purchased his copy of scenery disk 12. I've been watching eBay for months, and scenery disk 12 has not yet come up for sale - it's a tricky disk to track down! Should you ever be inclined to get up in the attic and find that you do have a copy of this disk, I would really love to hear from you again! I'm assembling a library of flight simulators from the eighties and nineties, and this is the only scenery disk I can't get to work with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2 which is extremely frustrating! mfahey - are you the mfahey of IFR Project? If so, I'm the fella that recently emailed you about that! Small world! Trent

Hi all, Firstly - I apologise if I've got this post in the wrong place. It's a bit hard to know where to place this request I have. Mods can relocate this post as they see fit. I'm requesting help from the flight sim veterans here that have been flying since the eighties! I cannot get my physical copy of SubLOGIC scenery disk 12 (New York, Halifax, Montreal) to work with my physical copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.13. I have been successful with scenery disks 9 and Hawaiian Odyssey. I completed a binary comparison of my scenery disk 12 with an acquaintance's copy and the two disks are alike. So either they've degraded in the same way, or there it's something else. Does anyone recall running SubLOGIC scenery disk 12 with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2? I know it can be run with subsequent MSFS versions 3 & 4 using the converts.exe and my disk produces a good .scn file for this purpose. My interest right now however is seeing if I can get it to run with MSFS 2, like the other disks I have. I'd love to hear from anyone with any experience here. Better yet, anyone with a copy of physical scenery disk 12 they can test for/with me. Trent